Changwat Kanchanaburi Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 4

Kanchanaburi. Or for more dramatic effect: Kanchanaburi, the Bridge over the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass & the Burma-Siam Death Railway... Is a lovely place, it is of course tied up with the story of prisoners of war in slave labour encampments during the second world war, and there are plenty of places to visit to get a sobering reminder of the costs of war and the lost innocence. For most it is a dramatic contrast to the general frivolity of 'travelling'. The tour group visited a cemete…

The First two days spent in Bangkok before i set off for the 29 day trip down to Bali.

We came from Lopburi to Kanchanaburi, a nightmare west-bound journey which seemed fitting, somehow. We got here at 4pm, having left Lopburi at 9.30am. The town is literally just three cemetaries, a museum and a few bars. The Thailand-Burma Railway museum was closing when we got there, but let us in anyway. It was affecting, but it could hardly fail to be. The only aspect of the Geneva Convention that the Japanese saw fit to stick to during WW2 was keeping track of the dead. 99% of the POWs wh…

Kanchanaburi is full of cows. They wander everywhere, onto the two-lane highway, in the fields and in the valleys between rocky cliffs. The cliffs rise steeply out of the jungle they’re a spectacular sight. In recent years the Thai government built infrastructure. Before Kanchanaburi was just a jungle much like Burma across the border. I was with Peter’s family and some other kids we were going to stay out on a ranch that belonged to a friend of his. The jeep track to the ranch was not …

So, after Ayutthaya we got a minibus to Kanchanaburi. The journey wasnt too bad, a bit bumpy and took 3 hours but we didnt get kicked off in the middle of nowhere at stupid o'clock in the morning. We arrived in Kanchanaburi around midday, it was hot as blazes but we didnt have far to go. We booked into a guesthouse called Sugar cane, which was situated on the edge of the river Kwai. Our room turned out to be ON the river! A nice little room floating on the river, thankfully it did…

Om half 8 uitgecheckt. Mos kwam een half uurtje later omdat hij problemen had met zijn accu. Het was ongeveer 2 uur rijden naar het plaatsje Damnoen Saduak, waar de floating market is. Onderweg even gestopt bij een traditioneel Thais houten huis op palen. Wat een andere wereld zeg, zodra je Bangkok uitrijdt! Supergroen, heel veel palmbomen en… de zon schijnt! Geen smog meer. Bij het Thaise huis hadden ze allerlei dieren, een slang, twee apen en eekhoorntjes. Vooral die apen waren leuk om t…

Different Parts of Thailand...

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A trip idea hatched out last minute, I gotta a long week holiday, where's the spot?? Local or overseas ??? have a few think.......better go Thailand cos we have AirAsia, cheap and good. Location = Phuket nah....Bangkok nah...... Chiang Mai not enuf time......aahhhh KANCHANABURI !!! only 2 hours by bus from Bangkok. There's the death railway & bridge on river kwai and fit in a side trip to Erawan National Park and Tiger Temple. One of the best 1 weeker travel ever pulled off

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Visited Thailand in Nov 2008 awesome place and so much to see and do, what a place. I would go back 2m and never come back.

From our maps we could tell that our hostel was too far to walk but not really far enough to drive, so we decided to take our first cyclo of our time in Thailand. This is just basically a two-seater (only just) carriage attached to the back of a bike. It was a relaxing way to see some of the sights without whilst getting from A to B.And it was at B that we would have our first experience of another Thai institution - ladyboys. It was then that Kyle uttered the immortal words, 'Are you sure sh…

Mark and I spent 2 weeks in Thailand in July 2008 - 4 nights/ 3 days in the craziness of Bangkok, and 9 nights at the beach in Hua Hin to relax and get some sun. This is my fifth time in Thailand - 4th in Bangkok, and 2nd in Hua Hin, but I love the country and the people, so it's hard to stay away! A highly recommended vacation spot. ** WORK IN PROGRESS! **

In making my way to Kanchanburi from Petchaburi, I had to change buses at Nakhon Pathom. It is here that the words tallest Buddhist monument stands... Prah Pathom Chedi. The site is the oldest Buddhist site in Thailand, it was constructed during the Dvaravati period, and later added by the Angkor period and finally by one of the kings of Thailand (can't remember which one).Well my initial plan for my first day in Kanchanburi was to get up early and rent a motorbike to head to the Hellsfire Pa…

We vertrekken weer vroeg, vooral omdat we naar de drijvende markt van Damnoen Saduak gaan (Floating Market), en deze is alleen ’s morgens vroeg te zien. Voordat we hier heen gingen, hebben we zelf nog met de boot door kanaaltjes gevaren, waarna we uiteindelijk bij het centrum van de drijvende markt uitkwamen en daar uitstapten. Het is een markt met allemaal bootjes met handelswaar. Het is echt heel erg mooi om te zien. Vooral toen ik op het bruggetje over het water stond en je dus zo boveno…